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Healing Light | 
 enlarge | Author: Agnes Mary White Sanford
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Media: Mass Market Paperback
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Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.5
ISBN: 0345306600
Dewey Decimal Number: 291
EAN: 9780345306609
ASIN: 0345306600
Publication Date: July 1990
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 Light or deception? September 19, 2007
Midasin (London, England)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book has always been popular with spiritualists and New Thought exponents, but also with certain Christians who have failed to take on a Biblical worldview.
Of course the Bible teaches that Christians should engage in a healing ministry. But the operative power should be the power of Christ, not the kind of power which works thru spiritualist mediums and then re-labelled "the Holy Spirit", in this way confusing the gullible. Indeed, the main problem with all of Mrs Sanford's writings is that she does not seem able to distinguish between the genuine power of the Holy Spirit and the power that operates in a spiritualistic context. But because she often uses Christian terminology, this confuses many of her readers. Even then she occasionally lets slip references to the Holy Spirit as "it".
Mrs Sanford was influenced both by her own `psychic powers' and New Thought (which is the thinking foundational to the `Mind Science' religions, like Christian Science, Unity, Higher Thought, New Thought, etc.). Combining this with a theistic worldview, she ended up believing in panentheism, namely the idea that God is literally in everything. Panentheists take this not just in the sense that God upholds everything by His Word, but in the sense that He can be contacted within and by means of the created order: "God ... is the one who made nature, and He's in nature, and He is nature," (p.33) and that "the very spirit and presence of God are in all created things." (Healing Power of the Bible, p.41)
Mrs Sanford's concept of the atonement is also nonChristian. The Bible speaks of the atonement as a legal transaction, in which Messiah Jesus is our sin-bearer and receiving in Himself the punishment for sin which He did not Himself commit. Accordingly anyone who puts their entire trust in him can be set free from objective guilt, and so escape our Creator's just judgment. By contrast, Mrs Sanford appears to substitute a metaphysical view which views the sins which Christ bore as actual quasi-physical entities, in line with her view that "thoughts are things". According to her, Christ "literally lowered His thought-vibrations to the thought-vibrations of humanity and received into Himself man's thoughts of sin and sickness, pain and death. And as He was the Son of God and therefore able to transcend time, He took into Himself all of the sinful thought-vibrations of all humanity, past, present and future." (p.135) She continued: "So He cleansed the thought-vibrations that surround this globe as a purifying plant cleanses our drinking water, taking it in dirty, throwing it up into the sunlight and sending it forth clean." (p.136)
After reading this, it will not be surprising to learn that Mrs Sanford regarded herself as a "metaphysician" (p.140), a term commonly used of "New Thought" and other `Mind Science' practitioners. In fact, one of the main influences in Mrs Sanford's teaching on healing was the work of Dr Emmet Fox (1886-1951), a major New Thought pioneer (Sealed Orders, p.103; Behold Your God! p.79). Fox wrote a famous book called The Sermon on the Mount, in which he reinterpreted those famous words of the Lord Jesus as consisting of a series of spiritual laws which could be applied with absolute scientific consistency to achieve certain, definite and predictable results.
It can be seen that Mrs Sanford's teaching about Christ's death on the cross is not the Biblical teaching, but rather an attempt to accommodate Biblical teaching to New Thought philosophy. Indeed, Mrs Sanford regarded herself as combining sacramentalism with New Thought-style "metaphysics": "Most people think that one cannot be both a metaphysician and a sacramentalist. But I have found that one can, and that knowing both methods gives a widely varying approach to different minds." (p.140)
What are these laws? They are not found in the Bible, but Mrs Sanford, who claimed special knowledge of "God's laws", taught that there were four of them:
1. Relax and remind yourself that there is "a source of life" outside ourselves.
2. Turn on the power, by requesting either an increase or an influx of the power, even by such a command as, "whoever you are - whatever you are - come into me now!"
3. Believe that the power is coming into you, and give thanks for it.
4. Observe the operations of that power; in other words: decide on some project and carry it out. (p.19)
Mrs Sanford envisioned a time when world peace would be attained by projection of benevolent thoughts: "A new age is being born. The day has come when love-power, at the command of ministers and surveyors and children and everyone, is sufficient to change hearts here and there in the world about them. This is the beginning of a new order!" (p.62)
So God is no longer a sovereign Person, but merely a force which must be projected through human agency to achieve anything of any significance. None of this has anything to do with the Bible, but is an expression of the New Thought dictum that "thoughts are things".
Of course, people are free in this age to believe whatever they like. But what is strange is that sincere people can insist that Mrs Sanford's views agree with the Bible. Clearly the two are quite contrary.
 Stimulating and Inspiring April 9, 2002
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
Agnes Sanford has inspired many healing ministries including those of Francis MacNutt, Ruth Carter Stapleton and Jim Glennon. Her message is clear and scriptually sound. God can work through us if we only let Him. There are certain things we can learn which will help us to seek God's healing love and that is what Agnes Sanford describes in this stimulating book.
Practical, powerful suggestions for healing prayer! February 15, 1999
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
"Healing Light" goes straight to the heart of God's healing power. Agnes Sanford was an anointed healer, and she recounts many incidents of God's healing throughout the book. I've read several other good books on the subject, but found hers to be full of fresh thoughts! Her rock solid faith will leave you newly inspired.
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